Mixed vegetable palak gravy recipe

Mixed vegetable palak is made by adding your favorite veg in palak gravy. Palak paneer is most popular palak based gravy, but I am loving this vegetable palak these days as it’s great alternate for paneer.

I had long time wish to try Diwani Handi like we get in Kailash pharbat. It is so rich, delicious and flavourful side dish. Usually I somehow guess the ingredients in a dish served at restaurants. This was really bit complicated to guess. I searched in the same name as Diwani handi in the internet, but nothing was convincing to match the taste.

So I decided why not try making in palak paneer style. I didn’t want to do in the same style gravy (palak base gravy). So tried bit different from the usual palak gravy. This one is without tomatoes. I have used curd in place of tomato. Other than my mutter paneer, I don’t like to add curd in the gravies. But I thought curd in this gravy should go well.

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Mixed Vegetable palak gravy recipe

Mixed vegetable palak is made by adding your favorite veggies in palak gravy which has curd in its base and not tomatoes. It's great alternate for paneer.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Servings 3

Cup measurements

Ingredients

• 1 cup Carrot, beans, peas (chopped)
• ½ cup Cauliflower cut into pieces*
• 2 cups Palak Indian spinach/ spinach
• ¼ cup Coriander leaves
• 1 Onion
• 1.5 tsp Chopped garlic
• ½ tsp Chopped ginger
• 4 Green chilli
• 8 Cashew nuts
• ¼ cup Curd plain yogurt, beat smoothly
• ½ tsp Kasoori methi
• ½ tsp Garam masala
• ⅛ tsp Turmeric
• ½ tsp Sugar
• Salt - as needed
• 2 tsp Butter

To temper

• 2 tsp Butter
• 1 inch piece Cinnamon
• 1 Cardamom - 1
• 1 clove
• ¾ tsp Cumin seeds

Instructions

• Heat a pan with butter, add ginger garlic and give it a fry. Add green chilli, cubed onion.
• Fry till onion turns transparent. Add spinach, coriander leaves and fry till spinach reduces in volume.
• Cool down this mixture and grind with cashew nuts to a smooth paste.
• Heat a pan with butter, add cinnamon, clove, cardamom followed by cumin seeds.
• Add chopped veggies, salt and 1/4 tsp sugar. Toss well. Cook covered for 2 minutes in medium flame without changing its colour. The veggies should get cooked but retain it’s crunchiness.
• Add ground paste, kasoori methi crushed between palms, garam masala, turmeric, 1/4 tsp sugar and mix.
• Fry for two minutes to cook the spinach and vegetables.
• Add well beaten curd in low flame and mix. Adjust water consistency if needed. Heat for 2 minutes in low flame and switch off the flame.

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Notes

• I soak chopped cauliflower in hot water with salt and turmeric until use.
• You can add few paneer cubes too.
• I used ginger garlic pressed through my garlic press. If you want you can also use ginger garlic paste. Use just 1 tsp in that case.

Mixed vegetable palak gravy method:

1. Heat a pan with butter, add ginger garlic and give it a fry. Add green chilli, cubed onion.
2. Fry till onion turns transparent. Add spinach, coriander leaves and fry till spinach reduces in volume.
3. Cool down this mixture and grind with cashew nuts to a smooth paste.
4. Heat a pan with butter, add cinnamon, clove, cardamom followed by cumin seeds. Add chopped veggies, salt and 1/4 tsp sugar. Toss well.
5. Cook covered for 2 minutes in medium flame without changing its colour. The veggies should get cooked but retain it’s crunchiness.Add ground paste, kasoori methi crushed between palms, garam masala, turmeric, 1/4 tsp sugar and mix.
6. Fry for two minutes to cook the spinach and vegetables. Add well beaten curd in low flame and mix.
7. Adjust water consistency if needed. Heat for 2 minutes in low flame and switch off the flame.

Serve with hot phulkas/ roti/ chapathi or with mild puavs.